Your favourite artist?

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It doesn't have to be from fantasy or sci-fi, but who is your favourite artist of the moment?

If I had to name one, I'd say Yoshitaka Amano for his beautiful watercolour paintings of Japanese mythology. He also painted the illustrations for Neil Gaiman's The Dream Hunters novel.
 
In genre:
Joseph Mugnaini, Richard Powers, John Harris, Frank R. Paul, Stanley Meltzoff, Virgil Finlay, Mars-1. Henk I. Gosses (a sculptor who recently passed away). Roy Squires, who made handmade letterpress books.

Out of genre:
Kaws (a.k.a. Brian Donnelly)
Gerhard Richter
 
Not much of an artist myself, but as a photographer, I greatly admire the work of Robert Capa, one thing he always said sticks in my mind, "If your work isn't good enough, you aren't close enough." He was following this advice when he trod on a landmine in (then) Indochina.
 
Modern art: Kandinsky, Chagall
"Older" art: Hiëronymus Bosch
Fantasy art/illustration: Dave McKean
 
I'm quite impressed with Geoff Taylor's book covers, I haven't checked much of his other stuff out though.

I really liked Paul Kidby's discworld art, he includes so many things which have a minor reference in an obscure book somewhere. Great atention to detail :)
 
I own this
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it's a numbered print,but i love it, her face shows so much feeling.
 
Too many movements and artists to list but the Pre-Raphaelites are way up there. I got to see "The Lady of Shallot" by Waterhouse a couple of years ago - I sat and stared at it for an hour. I also love Charles Vess. Wonderful clean lines and color, straight forward but very evocative and lovely.
 
In genre:Bok,Freas,Gaughan,Schoenherr,van Dongen,Powers.

other art:Japanes prints,glass by Galle,surrealism by Max Ernst,cubism by Braque,landscapes by the Haagse School,
architecture by that Finn Aalto?*google that one later*,Le Corbusier,von der Rohe;
basically anything Art Nouveau;
Miro,Kandinsky,Pisarro,Sisley,Pieter de Hoogh,Emil Nolde,Durer,Memlinck,
Grandma Moses,Edward Hopper;
scrimshaw,ethnic art
uhhhmm better stop now
 
It doesn't have to be from fantasy or sci-fi, but who is your favourite artist of the moment?

If I had to name one, I'd say Yoshitaka Amano for his beautiful watercolour paintings of Japanese mythology. He also painted the illustrations for Neil Gaiman's The Dream Hunters novel.

Is it allright to elaborate?I'd love the reason why people admire their particular favourite artists!Love the thread,being a bit of an art lover.:D
 
It's fine to elaborate.:) I like Amano's art because of its ethereal nature. The way he captures his subjects with only a few strokes of watercolour or a couple of charcoal lines is something beautiful, and there's a strong sense of delicacy even in his boldest paintings. There's a lot of detail, too, but not so much as to look fussy. Not many artists can capture the essence of dreaming, but Amano manages it really well.
 
Book Stop Larry Elmore is a fave of mine too, I also think all the other TSR artists are incredibly talented Robh Rupel, Fred Feilds, Keith Parkinson, Clyde Caldwell, Brom, Tod Lockwood and of course Jason Engle....etc

Yet My fave Artists ever have tio be without a shadow of a doubt BORIS VALLEJO and JULIE BELL.

If I had thier talent I would be one happy bunny.

Thier mastery of the human form is beyond belief and I have often found myself looking twice at peuices of thier work and thinking for a second that it is a photograph, when I can provoke that thought for one second in my work then I will die with a wish fufilled.
 
Mmm fantasy style: Quinton Hoover
Western: Salvator Dahli
Oriental: Ukiyo-e artists like Hokusai
for being so sweet and sending me a painting: Kylie buckley :p
 

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